---
title: "Use Flows with Hubflo Studio"
description: "Build a Flow template by describing it to Studio's AI assistant, and launch Flows automatically from an automation."
url: https://support.hubflo.com/en/articles/15704494-use-flows-with-hubflo-studio
collection: "Flows"
updated: 2026-11-03
language: en
---

# Use Flows with Hubflo Studio

Build a Flow template by describing it to Studio's AI assistant, and launch Flows automatically from an automation.

Hubflo Studio works with Flows in two ways: its AI assistant builds Flow templates for you, and your automations can launch a Flow on their own.

**Note:** Studio requires the Hubflo **Unlimited** plan. New to Studio? Start with [Get started with Hubflo Studio](https://support.hubflo.com/en/articles/15704479-get-started-with-hubflo-studio.md).

## Build a template with Studio's AI assistant

1.  Go to **Studio > Home**.
    
2.  Describe the process you want to turn into a Flow. For example: "Create a flow for my real estate agency to onboard new buyer clients" or "I run a small law firm. Build me a flow for taking on new clients for a K1 visa."
    
3.  Answer the questions it asks, then approve.
    

Studio creates the whole template: its roles, its steps and the forms they need. Open it from **Flows > Templates** to check it and adjust it before you start a Flow.

**Tip:** the more you say up front, the better the template: who takes part, which documents you need, what the team has to approve.

## Launch a Flow from an automation

Add the **Launch a flow** step to an automation to start a Flow automatically. For example: when a client signs a smartdoc, launch your onboarding Flow for them.

The step needs the template to use and a person for each role used by a step: a contact for an external role, a team member for an internal role. The same rules apply as when you start a Flow yourself: the template can't be archived or have an empty step, and each contact needs an email address.

Once launched, the Flow works like any other. The person of step 1 gets an email right away, and the Flow shows up in the **Flows** tab.

**Important:** **Test** simulates the automation without launching anything. **Run live** launches a real Flow, and your client receives the email.

## FAQ

**Can an automation start when a step of a Flow is completed?** Not yet. Flows can't be used as a trigger today.

**Can Studio's AI assistant manage a Flow in progress?** Not yet. To skip a step, reassign a role or cancel a Flow, do it from the Flow page.

**Are the steps of an automation the steps of a Flow?** No. An automation has its own steps (what happens after the trigger). "Launch a flow" is one of them, and it starts a Flow that has its own steps.